​The Czech Republic won the first-ever Super 6 in softball

22 Sep 2018

The best six teams from the Women’s Softball European Championship
2017 competed for five days in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. A baseball tournament
of the same format took place in the same ballpark at the same time. WBSC
Europe organized the Super 6 as its first event and it was the Czech Republic who
took the first Super 6 title.

It wasn’t clear who would play the evening final until the
first game of the day was over. There were various options but the Czechs made
it simple – they beat the Netherlands 1-0 and became the only undefeated team
in the tournament. The two teams to fight in the final were the Czech Republic and
Italy.

The final game the Czech Republic against Italy had to be canceled due weather
conditions, and as the Czech Republic beat Italy in the round-robin phase, they
were declared the winner. Italy took silver.

Great Britain played a tight game against the Netherlands
earlier that day. Despite better records when it comes to hits, team GB beat
the Dutch by one run 3-2 and took bronze.

Another dramatic game took place around noon, Russia was in
the lead in the race for the 5th spot but Greece came back in the 7th inning,
scored four times and took the 5th place in the tournament (final score 5-4).

Veronika Peckova (CZE) was awarded the best pitcher and also the MVP, Amanda Fama (ITA) was awarded the best hitter.